Samuel Dinsmoor

Samuel Dinsmoor (1 July 1766-15 March 1835) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NH) from 4 March 1811 to 3 March 1813, succeeding John Curtis Chamberlain and preceding Samuel Smith) and Governor of New Hampshire from 2 June 1831 to 5 June 1834 (succeeding Matthew Harvey and preceding William Badger).

Biography
Samuel Dinsmoor was born in Windham, New Hampshire in 1766, and he became a lawyer in Keene before becoming its Postmaster in 1808. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1811 to 1813, as an 1820 presidential elector, as a state court judge from 1823 to 1831, and as Governor from 1831 to 1834, starting the process which led to the creation of the state's first insane asylum in 1838. He died in 1835.